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Napster\u2014once a peer-to-peer music-sharing platform turned streamer, now a self-proclaimed innovation company \u201cpowering the next generation of embodied and agentic AI\u201d\u2014announced a redesign to its mobile app<\/a> for iOS and Android.<\/p>\n The new app, built entirely around AI-generated content and real-time creation tools, extends Napster\u2019s new direction to mobile and brings users \u201ca unified hub for AI-driven music, podcasts, wellness experiences, and collaborative creation.\u201d<\/p>\n Listeners can interact with the full suite of the previously unveiled<\/a> \u201cNapster Companions,\u201d explore a growing catalog of AI-generated audio, and \u201cco-create\u201d new work with AI artists in a single platform. The mobile experience is \u201cbuilt for participation, not passive streaming,\u201d to provide users the ability to experiment, collaborate, and publish with AI.<\/p>\n \u201cNapster was born to break boundaries, and we\u2019re doing it again,\u201d said John Acunto, CEO of Napster. \u201cWe see this as a declaration that the age of passive consumption is over. Fans aren\u2019t here to be fed a playlist. They\u2019re here to co-create, to fuse their identity with AI artists in real time, and to shape the soundtrack of a new era.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Napster<\/a>, the new app is powered entirely by AI models, composition engines, and creator-driven prompts\u2014rather than licensing content from traditional record labels, something the company hasn\u2019t been too great at in the past<\/a>.<\/p>\n The app\u2019s functionality can also be explored in a web browser and via a Mac OS app that allows users to interact with \u201cAI experts\u201d through the company\u2019s proprietary Napster View hardware on a dedicated screen. Napster also unveiled its Napster Station, \u201cthe first AI concierge,\u201d at CES in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n <\/div>\nThe app represents a new era for Napster, the company says, embracing the future: no traditional record label catalog (read: licensed music), no \u201crigid playlists\u201d\u2014just \u201ca universe of full adaptive, AI-driven experiences built with listeners and creators at the center.\u201d<\/h4>\n